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Monday,
March 21,
2005, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
BREAKING
NEWS
 Dell inaugurates its third contact centre in India
Speakers
voice concern
SC order on Jharkhand
New Delhi, March 20
An emergency conference of Presiding
Officers of Legislative Bodies of India, boycotted by Speakers of
NDA-ruled states, today expressed concern over court orders, which tend to
disturb the delicate balance of power between Judiciary and Legislature
and appeared to be a transgression into the independence of the
Parliamentary System of our country.
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Should umpires be penalised for wrong decisions?
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Haryana
Cabinet restores Governor’s power
Chandigarh, March 20
Taking the first step to restore the
dignity of various Constitutional institutions as promised by the Chief
Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, the Haryana Cabinet today decided to
restore the power of the Governor to hear memorials submitted by
government employees against punishment awarded to them by the state
government.
Haryana
page: Haryana
House to elect Speaker today
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Sports
page: Kumble
gives India a thumping victory and more
Indian cricketers celebrate after winning the second Test against Pakistan in Kolkata on Sunday. India won the match by 195 runs to go 1-0 up in the three-Test series.
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Full
coverage: India
vs Pak
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2005
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QUOTE OF THE
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If we could score more than 500 runs we would have had a chance. There had been some brilliant individual performances but we lacked team effort.
— Inzamam-ul-Haq
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Invite
to Modi divides hosts
The controversial decision
to invite Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to address the annual
convention of the Asian American Hotel Owners Association has
created a rift within the predominantly Gujarati group.
‘Swabhiman
Rally’ by NDA
Editorial:
Visa power
Ponty
dominates auctions again
 2,818 liquor vends go for
771.70 cr
Ludhiana,
March 20
Liquor baron Ponty Chadha-led
syndicates today dominated the Punjab excise auctions, winning the right
to run all 3,613 vends, including 2,818 country liquor vends, in three
of the seven divisions of the state. Auctions in the remaining four
excise divisions have been deferred till March 22.
Liquor contractor Ponty Chadha arrives at Rotary Bhavan in Ludhiana to attend the liquor vends’ auction on Sunday.
— Tribune photo by Manoj Mahajan
‘Punjab
has no choice’
Ludhiana
page: Liquor vends of
Ludhiana division fetch
Rs 275 cr
50 killed in Baluchistan
Islamabad, March 20
Fifty persons were killed and over 100 injured in a suicide bomb blast at a shrine of a Shiite Muslim saint in Pakistan’s southwest Baluchistan province, even as the army was deployed in the gas-rich town of Sui of the troubled region to ward off attacks from nationalist rebels.
(Details on World
page)
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List
of bus passengers sent to Pakistan
New Delhi, March 20
India has submitted to Pakistan a
list of 40 persons who had applied for travel in the first bus between
Srinagar and Muzzafarabad on April 7 but a similar list from the other
side was awaited. Highly placed sources said Pakistan had refused to
issue any travel form to the people, mostly militants, who had crossed
over from Jammu and Kashmir to PoK after the outbreak of militancy in
1990.
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PM
criticises USA for visa denial
March 20, 2005
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USA denies visa to Modi
March 19, 2005
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FM hints at rollback of tax on cash withdrawal
March 18, 2005
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US refuses to stop F-16 sale to Pak
March 17, 2005
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Munda wins trust vote
March 16, 2005
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Speaker
adamant, but in a fix
March 15, 2005
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UPA to contest Jharkhand Speaker’s post
March 14, 2005
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Munda, 5 others
sworn in
March 13, 2005
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Soren quits,
Munda made CM
March 12, 2005
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Speaker to seek Kalam’s view
on SC order
March 11, 2005
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